Boy Broken

Extreme Child Abuse Story

Memoir Narrative
Extreme Child Abuse

Children who are raised like savage animals often act like savage animals.
Reactive Attachment Disorder

Boy Broken was excerpted from my Memoir, Out of the Maelstrom, and expanded upon to form a standalone narrative. The setting for the story is work at a Domestic Violence Agency, in the Domestic Violence Shelter for Victims of Abuse. In the small town in which I lived; the hundred-year-old two-story house was called ‘The Battered Women’s Shelter.’
I am Sara Niles, and I spent most of my life, either experiencing abuse firsthand and researching dysfunctional behaviors and dynamics while living the aftermath of abuse. I escaped from a dangerous abuser and disappeared in 1987; I later became a Domestic Violence Trainer, Counselor and Expert.

During the decade that I worked with abuse victims, I encountered the most damaged children imaginable; this is one of those stories: Boy Broken.